Instrument name display options

Dorico
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I’m working on an SATB w/piano score and I have two questions about instrument labels (I guess more accurately referred to as instrument names, but what I’m talking about is the text to the left of the staff):

  1. How can I hide the Piano instrument label while still showing the vocal instrument labels?
  2. I have a 3-part arrangement and a 4-part arrangement. I’ve got a “tenor 3-part” player and a “tenor 4-part” player, and they’re assigned to respective layouts and all is great. Except, in the layouts themselves, they are showing up as Tenor I and Tenor II, which is a nice little thing Dorico does, except that in this instance I don’t want those numbers. How do I fix it so they just say “Tenor” in each layout?

Thank you!

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  1. If you don’t ever need to show the piano label on the left of the staff, you can edit that name and input " " (space) instead of “Piano”. You can do that in Setup mode, click the > next to the name of the player, it turns into a chevron with a list in which Edit name appears :wink:
  2. Have you tried to change one of the tenor names with, for instance, a non-breakable space after the name (alt-shift-space) ? Not sure it works, but still worth the try.
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I was at least able to get around the tenor/bass problem by changing the name of the player. Since I never needed to display the full name, I could change it to whatever I wanted and the abbreviated name would still be “T.” Your idea sounds very likely to work though.